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by alex7734 3y ago
I don't think it is that much more secure, given that in this case "something you have" is bolted onto the machine you're attempting to protect and that a sufficiently long password provides enough space to make brute fo
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by alex7734 3y ago
If you're going to use a long password there is no point to using the TPM as the length of the password itself is enough brute force resistance.
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by alex7734 3y ago
"Please watch this 20 minute ad to continue using your EvilCorp Eye Replacement"
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by alex7734 3y ago
> Capcom notes that "mods that are not officially supported by the game are impossible to distinguish from cheat tools, implementation-wise." But Capcom then talks about the "reputational damage caused by malicious mods,&q
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by alex7734 3y ago
In a sane world this would have to be satire, but unfortunately I believe every single word of this
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by alex7734 3y ago
The company I work for recently had the beautiful experience of having Windows Defender delete our program from many of our customers computers during the weekend, with the consequent support calls the next day about "your program does
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by alex7734 3y ago
> and letting purchasers decide to buy it or not with full knowledge Consumers never have full knowledge of the quality level of whatever they're purchasing, much less in something like a house that is not standard and has to be ada
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by alex7734 3y ago
Well, yes, I explained myself horribly. What I meant is that most people are way more sensitive to graphics than anything else. A lot of people will never play a game that is ugly but don't seem to mind laggy inputs. There are a lot of
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by alex7734 3y ago
> But if the input is laggy, I'll feel that the entire time I'm playing. You've already bought the game at this point so most devs don't care.
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by alex7734 3y ago
> It's not like their ad model does better if users lose faith in their results. Yes but not really: if the results are so bad that they're useless, yes, the users leave, but Google profits maximally when the results are only b
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by alex7734 3y ago
The problem here is not using propietary software but building your product/business on top of a contract that can be changed by Unity whenever they feel like squeezing you for more money.
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by alex7734 3y ago
Yandex: https://yandex.com/search/?text=python+endswith
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by alex7734 3y ago
They're short of skilled people that want to work for free basically.
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by alex7734 3y ago
It wasn't that long ago when Microsoft got sued (in the US) for not allowing people to uninstall and replace Internet Explorer. Something has changed since then that has made US anti-trust much "lazier".
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by alex7734 3y ago
> Oh, so first you print free money and dump it into inflating assets making the rich obscenely rich, and now Joe Schmoe will have to be taxed to pay for it? > So that's how trickle down at works. Privatize the winnings, socializ
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by alex7734 3y ago
> Why? Because telling a bot they've failed tells them that they should stop trying something that's not working In my humble opinion if your bot is stuck in a CloudFlare loop for 10 minutes that's a pretty strong signal t
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by alex7734 3y ago
> It seems the premise is that those with a computer should be able to access others servers wholesale unconditionally. This premise is obviously wrong. "Obviously" is a very strong word for what is pretty much your opinion. As
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by alex7734 3y ago
I don't know how it works in the US but in the EU the working class pay a lot more tax, proportionally, than the rich: In Spain if you work and you cost your company 26430 euros: - The company pays 6430 for social security (calculated
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by alex7734 3y ago
> it could release highly toxic hydrogen sulfide gas. How bad is it in real world conditions? Because from what I'm reading it's not the "it makes you sick" kind of toxic, but rather the "it kills you in seconds&
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by alex7734 3y ago
> No matter what, there's always a way in. There's always a hack. The harder you make it to hack, the more motivated those crazy people at defcon will be to break it. Absolutely, but I don't want to have to use 0days like
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by alex7734 3y ago
> They have a history of killing projects Yeah that's Google alright
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by alex7734 3y ago
TPM is not designed to prevent intrusion from hackers, it's designed to turn your general purpose computer into an appliance by preventing you, the owner, from modifying the OS in your computer as you see fit (and interact with third p
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by alex7734 3y ago
Sure, you can convince people to use Firefox and drop Chrome just like IE was dropped back in the day but back then there wasn't a strong incentive to websites to prefer one browser over another (other than convenience). Here's wh
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by alex7734 3y ago
I find the blatant gaslighting regarding this topic baffling. > Wisner insists that “WEI is not designed to single out browsers or extensions” and that it won’t block browsers that spoof their identity. WEI's sole purpose in life is
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by alex7734 3y ago
> But as mentioned above, isn't doing so against Google's own self interest? I don't see how it is against their interest, it would cement Google into power in a way that is very difficult to undo barring government interv
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by alex7734 3y ago
At which point you use CAPTCHA. The goal of WEI is not to get rid of bots, that's just a bonus, it is to remove user control and customization over his own experience.
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by alex7734 3y ago
> the only way WEI would prevent bots would be by preventing you from running the browser on an operating system without 3rd party software installed Or by isolating the browser from third party software. Android does not let application
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by alex7734 3y ago
I've seen people open up all of their users' "private" content to Googlebot IPs just to get rid of errors in Google's search/Adsense console "in case it helps revenue" (as in they didn't even kn
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by alex7734 3y ago
You have to be hopelessly naive to believe that the hold-back feature is going to be implemented as described, if at all, and not quietly removed when the outrage dies down. And even if it stays as described, the percentage will be low enou
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by alex7734 3y ago
They can play with semantics all they want but the point of WEI is so the server can tell apart modified and unmodified browsers at which point the server can tell modified browsers to go away.

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